I think the reason our town-centre doesn't get flooded is because our ancestors were bright enough to put the actual city centre on a hill ;) The lowest part of the city is still a bit higher than even the highest flood-levels were (but in 2013 we had about 2 cm to spare... the businesses and homes around were all covered knee-high in sandbags in case the water-level would rise another few centimetres.
On the outer parts of the city we did have quite extensive flooding. But these people know they live in a danger-zone and most of them a) cleared their basements before it got too late and have some sorts of pumping system in place for times like that and b) left their houses altogether in the more threatened areas.
But since floodings are quite regular here most of the houses near the Danube/in flood zones are actually built on stilts. So it's only the really big floods that leaves a lot of damage to deal with, and even then the people in danger have geared up since the flood in 2002 where some of the people living outside the usual danger-zones were taken by surprise.
We've learned to deal with regular floods and high waters, I guess.
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Date: 2016-02-25 01:46 am (UTC)The lowest part of the city is still a bit higher than even the highest flood-levels were (but in 2013 we had about 2 cm to spare... the businesses and homes around were all covered knee-high in sandbags in case the water-level would rise another few centimetres.
On the outer parts of the city we did have quite extensive flooding. But these people know they live in a danger-zone and most of them a) cleared their basements before it got too late and have some sorts of pumping system in place for times like that and b) left their houses altogether in the more threatened areas.
But since floodings are quite regular here most of the houses near the Danube/in flood zones are actually built on stilts. So it's only the really big floods that leaves a lot of damage to deal with, and even then the people in danger have geared up since the flood in 2002 where some of the people living outside the usual danger-zones were taken by surprise.
We've learned to deal with regular floods and high waters, I guess.